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It seems so obvious, doesn’t it? If you use Twitter SMS to receive text messages on your phone, then you’re going to want to be able to see when people directly reply to you. (Aside: If you’re not a Twitter user and I’ve lost you at this point, I’ll see you at [...]

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I was reading this article by Hutch Carpenter on why professionals should continue to blog in the era of Twitter (thanks @problogger), and I was thinking, “What? Me? Not blog because of Twitter? Nah. Never happen.” Then I realized my last blog post was nearly two weeks ago. Approximately when I became addicted [...]

Poor Twitter. It’s been called names (“useless!”), laughed at (“what the heck is a tweep?”), and derided by people who Just. Don’t. Understand.
But Twitter is powerful. It can single-handedly bring down a super-duper expensive ad campaign. It can cause an idea (or product, article, whatever) to spread like the chicken pox. It can help you [...]